Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sweathouse
Corratober Lower, County Cavan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Corratober Lower
- County
- Cavan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Sweat Ho.
- Coordinates
- 54.20340, -7.96253
- SMR number
- CV005-025----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Marked on all OS eds. Situated adjacent to a stream. Small oval drystone-built structure (H 1.6m; int. dims. 2.4m NW-SE; 1.5m NE-SW) of beehive-type construction, roofed internally by a flat slab. Partly built into a hillside at SE. Lintelled entrance at NE (H 0.7m; Wth 0.5m). Richardson (1939, 34) recorded 'a flue on each side of it'.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.